IN seventh-grade English class, sun leaked in through the windows. Horns bleated outside. The assignment was for the arrayed students to identify a turning point in their lives. Was it positive or negative? They hunched over and wrote fervidly.
Floriande Augustin, a first-year teacher at the school, invited students to share their choices. Hands waved for
There are some interesting things going on in Seattle, Wash., in the areas of racial and social justice. Its Race and Social Justice Initiative is hoping to make a real difference in the lives of Seattle’s residents.
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OC Human Relations shares listening sessions report:
His Maricopa County, Ariz., department is accused of a ‘pattern of unconstitutional conduct’ against Latinos, especially immigrants. Allegations including racial profiling, abuse in jails and retaliation against critics.
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PHOENIX — A federal lawsuit asserting a “pattern of unlawful discrimination” by law enforcement officials here claims that Latinos at the county jail were often referred to as “stupid” or addressed with a coarse ethnic slur. It also says that an e-mail circulated among jail officers contained a photograph of a Chihuahua in a swimsuit,
President Obama’s historic endorsement of gay marriage draws praise and cash from supporters but could carry a political cost in the South….
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North Carolina’s image as a destination for gay and lesbian students and faculty members appears to have suffered as a result of the state’s overwhelming adoption Tuesday of a constitutional amendment that precludes any legal recognition of marriages, domestic partnerships, or civil unions between people of the same sex.
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President Obama’s endorsement of gay marriage on Wednesday was by any measure a watershed. A sitting United States president took sides in what many people consider the last civil rights movement, providing the most powerful evidence to date of how rapidly views are moving on an issue that was politically toxic just five years ago.
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A blog post attacking Black studies as an academic discipline has led to the dismissal of author Naomi Schaefer Riley from the Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Brainstorm” blog at Chronicle.com. Billed as a blogging platform for ‘Ideas and Culture,’ Brainstorm had included Riley along with 12 other writers on the blogger roster…
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